Stalactite or Stalagmite

[Bugsy]

Some grow up and some grow down...............................................Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm[:D][:D]

[Missy]

.....and... you want to know which is which.....

Le stalagTite Tombe et le stalagMite Monte..... voilà..... [:D]

Thank you to Madame Bouffard, my first primary school teacher!, to have pointed out the difference........

[Valleyboy]

Or "Tights come down and mites go up".

[Missy]

[quote user="Valleyboy"]Or "Tights come down and mites go up".[/quote]

Trust a man!! Tights go down ...... [Www][;-)]

[saddie]

I was taught that stalegtites had to hang in tight and stalegmites might reach the roof eventually.

[cooperlola]

[quote user="Valleyboy"]Or "Tights come down and mites go up".[/quote]

The version I heard was mites grow up and tights fall down!

[5-element]

OI! It's stalactites and stalagmites!!!  Both in French and in English.

[Ford Anglia]

At age 10 I went round the Treak Cliff Caverns in Castleton, Derbys, with school.

I distinctly remember the guide telling us:

"Stalactite: hold tight, stalagmite: little mite."

[Bugsy]

[quote user="5-element"]OI! It's stalactites and stalagmites!!!  Both in French and in English.[/quote]

 

Pedantic, or what........................................bet you can't spell Stegosaurus.............................[:)][:P]

[Cassis]

I was taught that stalactites hold tight and stalagmites might reach the roof.

Snap with Saddie.  Mrs Dunn, Infants 3!

[5-element]

You're right Bugbear... I couldn't have spelt it until you said. All I have to do now is to wait for the next occasion to say or write it...Stegosaurus...sounds good,  I should be able to slip this into the conversation...

In French: stalacTite = qui Tombe

               stalagMite = qui Monte         that's what we learned at school...

[cooperlola]

Or as in c for ceiling and g for ground

[Dick Smith]

"It's like a girl with ants in her pants. The mites go up and the tights go down"

Miss Archer, Year 6.

[Miki]

"The mites go up and the tights go down"

Is that a Pogues song or was that this one:

The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out
The ones that crawl in are lean and thin
The ones that crawl out are fat and stout
Your eyes fall in and your teeth fall out
Your brains come tumbling down your snout
Be merry my friends
Be merry
Off topic ? 
Must be something akin to stalagwotsits in there, if not excusez moi..................

[Bugsy]

Nothing to do with stalagwotsits, I'm afraid and what are you doing up at 0200 hours ?

 

(crikey, 100 posts in 20 days, I really must get out more.........[8-|] )

[Miki]

[quote user="Bugbear"]

Nothing to do with stalagwotsits, I'm afraid and what are you doing up at 0200 hours ?

 

(crikey, 100 posts in 20 days, I really must get out more.........[8-|] )

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Me hours are out of kilt. TOH is away at the moment and I am a little lost as to what to do [:(]

It kinda looks like it should have something to do with stalagdodahs though, doncha fink ?